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This video incident merely shows what many in academia routinely discuss behind closed doors but are afraid to say out loud because they know their livelihoods could be threatened if they do so.
Last edited by BigCityDreamer; 03-14-2021 at 08:18 AM..
Yeah, but the professor didn’t quit. She was FIRED for stating the obvious.
It seems the people that are wrong are the black students that insist on being allowed into a class where, academically, they have no business being and the University for putting them there.
I am sick and tired of the sentiment that students of color don't belong in school. Folk like this adjunct, plus Amy Wax at Penn (but Wax has full tenure but can get away with it!) have been preaching, for years, this garbage of "they don't cut it!" How can anyone trust a professor to be an objective grader, when he/she has views like that? If I had a choice, I go nowhere near this professor when registering for class!
She should've known better. Just pad the grades of the lower performing students and get on with your career. Or do what she did and have no career. Intelligent people can be very naive.
Basically. Sadly this is the system now (underperformance, laziness, lack of meritocracy). One person isn't going to change that system
It seems the people that are wrong are the black students that insist on being allowed into a class where, academically, they have no business being and the University for putting them there.
I agree. It does not benefit the black students with a 3.2 to end up in a highly competitive program with students averaging 3.8 and 3.9. The lower-scoring students would be better off if race were not a factor in admission, and thus they ended up in a decent, but not necessarily top-tier, state university with other B students.
But I don’t blame the black students. It’s the fault of the affirmative action system in thinking the students are better served by being put in a university where the average student is much more academically capable (as demonstrated through GPA and test scores) when in fact everyone would be better off in a school better matched to their academic ability.
Well, there's something called professionalism, and some seem to be missing the point as per usual. I'm no fan of 'woke' culture either, but that doesn't mean every single situation in life is cookie cutter and the same.
The professor may have been pointing out what is 'factual' in her own classes and experience, but that doesn't mean she had to in the first place. When I looked at the video, the way she spoke it's almost like you could see her rolling her eyes and sighing, with exaggerated motions and laughing at spots. Almost like it's mocking the students. I'm not saying that was her intention, but first impressions are everything.
If she wanted to have a serious discussion about why Black students are doing so poorly in her classes, that's something that needed to be handled in a professional roundtable with administration and others. Some people just cannot seem to grasp when to keep their mouths shut and when to keep things professional and respectful towards all people.
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